A week ago yesterday, this post ran here on Copyblogger, all about how I’m actually a woman. Not coincidentally, a week ago yesterday was also April 1st, widely known as April Fool’s Day. So, the whole thing was the drunken brainchild of me and James Chartrand, who actually did make that revelation for real. (In fact, that’s James in the photo that goes with my post).
I tried to make that post as ridiculous and over-the-top as possible, but I still got several comments, messages and emails saying, essentially, “You go, girl!”
So I guess I should make it clear that I’m not actually a woman. I have watched every episode of Sex and the City, though. Don’t look at me like that. There’s sex in it.
Reporting from the ladies’ room, here’s what happened this week on Copyblogger:
Monday:
40 Questions You Need to Ask Every Copywriting Client
I love to set proper expectations, whether they’re about work you’re doing with a client or about the gender of any given Copyblogger writer. This post will really help to set the right tone for any relationship with new copywriting clients, and to avoid awkward confrontations like, “But you said you wanted this press release to center on buffalos!” NOTE: This post is still applicable for most journalists working in the buffalo/bison fields.
Read the full post here.
Tuesday:
The Old-School Content Marketing Strategy That Scores Freelance Writing Clients
What? There are forms of writing that occur on flattened sheets of some kind of papyrus-like material? This post claims so, and encourages you to use “tree pulp trade magazine content creation” (or something) to gain clients — if you can crack the code to make it work. (Speaking of codes, remember Pig Latin? Pig Latin was awesome....
